Pence v. Langdon’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 578 · 1878
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 12 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably Vicksburg v. Putnam (1886), Shappirio v. Goldberg (1904)
52 federal appellate · 12 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 24 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Solomon Etting v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Barreda v. Silsbee
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Acquiescence and waiver are always questions of fact. There can be neither without knowledge. The teims import this foundation for such action. One cannot waive or acquiesce in a wrong while ignorant that it has been committed. Current suspicion and rumor are not enough. There must be knowledge of facts which will enable the party to take effectual action. Nothing short of this will do.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A direction to a jury to find a verdict in favor of a party can be properly given only when the state of the evidence is such as to leave no room for doubt that it is the duty of the jury to find accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not enough to show that he might have known or suspected it from data within his reach.” Pence v. Langdon, supra, 99 U. S. 581 , 25 L. Ed. 420 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bayne v. Whistler
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.